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Lidded basket with long handles

Maker Unknown, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Mohawk

DateEarly 20th C

MediumFiber, pigment, wood, Black ash and sweetgrass

Dimensions8 1/2” H x 6 3/4” Diam.

Credit LineMuseum Purchase; Funded by Edward M Werner ‘71

Object numberNA2010.094.WER

DescriptionVintage splint and sweetgrass knitting basket with a tight coil of splint at the center top overcast with red-dyed splint, now somewhat faded. Braided natural and black sweetgrass around the body and lid and forming two handles with decorative ends.

ClassificationsBasketry

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Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

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